2010 February

UNE and Penn State University in the United States have announced an agreement to pursue joint research projects and research funding, and to explore the potential for shared courses and exchanges of staff and students.

A report from UNE’s SiMERR National Centre points to the proliferation of subject choices as one of the factors most likely to be influencing the current decline in the proportion of senior high-school students taking science subjects.

A meta-analysis of more than a dozen studies involving some 3000 participants has shown that a person is much more likely to be dissatisfied with their relationship when their partner is neurotic, low in conscientiousness or disagreeable.